1. Michael Cristofer was born on January 22,1945 and is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker.
10 Facts About Michael Cristofer
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Michael Cristofer received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977.
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Michael Cristofer started his theatrical career as an actor, primarily on stage.
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Michael Cristofer's directing credits include Gia, starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl and Faye Dunaway, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and for which he won a Directors Guild Award.
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Michael Cristofer next directed Body Shots and Original Sin, released in 2001.
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Michael Cristofer directed Joanne Woodward in his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.
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Michael Cristofer collaborated with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, writing the libretto for Champion, a boxing opera in jazz music based on the life of prize fighter Emile Griffith.
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Michael Cristofer recently appeared in The Other Woman, and created the role of Gus in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures at the Public Theater.
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In 2010, Michael Cristofer was a cast member on Rubicon, in which he played Truxton Spangler.
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In 2015, Michael Cristofer made guest appearances in four episodes of season one of Mr Robot as Phillip Price, the shadowy CEO of the sinister E Corp, and he became a cast member in season two, three, and four.